#059: Trapped In Wuhan During COVID-19 | Jen Knight
Jen Knight says that she "won the in-laws lottery" when it comes to her Chinese husband's parents. But luck wasn't on her side this past January, when a day after she arrived in her husband's hometown just outside of Wuhan for a Spring Festival celebration, the Chinese government started shutting down all transit links into and out of the area, effectively trapping her at Ground Zero of what would soon come to be known as the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. She was, as she easily admits, "terrified" and felt isolated, but what helped her feel less alone was participating in a study that asked China-based expats how they were feeling during the crisis. And through 2 months of lockdown in Hubei + 2 weeks of self isolation in her apartment in Shenzhen, her notions of "home" have shifted- or maybe she was just being made aware of a shift that had already taken place.
If you missed it, be sure to go back one episode and listen to part 1 of this series where I speak with Chris Barnhart, who designed the survey that Jen assisted on. You can also read a summary of their findings on our blog here (http://bit.ly/MM-Blog-20200326).
And scroll back one more episode, to #057, to hear my impromptu conversation with a group of China-based expats who found them themselves trapped in Bali just as the outbreak began spreading across China.
To learn more about Jen and her work as a life coach for women living abroad, check out her website, https://www.jenknight.com (https://www.jenknight.com/), or follow her updates on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/coachjenknight/) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/coachjenknight/).
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30 Mar 2020
#058: Studying Anxiety In Expats In the Time of COVID-19 | Chris Barnhart
This week we're kicking off Season 4 with part 1 of a special 2-part series focusing on a pair of international migrants who have written a study on how the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in China effected foreign nationals living there. The lead researcher, Chris Barnhart, was a high school teacher in Florida who'd been laid off during a round of budget cuts and was as surprised as anyone to find himself heading to China months later to be the first foreign professor at a university in Guangdong province. His experience there has been a revelation to him, and his empathy and desire to check in on fellow foreigners during the initial stages of the outbreak led him to want to quantify the resilience that he saw in the people around him. When he couldn't find evidence of anyone else studying expats in China during this time he took it on himself to gather the data... and what he found was... well, let's let him explain how things went.
Read the summary of Chis and Jen's findings on our blog, here (https://www.migrationmedia.net/blog/2020/3/26/i-studied-anxiety-in-expats-in-china-during-the-covid-19-outbreak-this-is-what-i-found). You can contact him with questions about his study via e-mail at c.r.barnhart@outlook.com (mailto:c.r.barnhart@outlook.com), or you can follow him on LinkedIn here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-barnhart-mba-49810a20/).
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Twitter: @zax2000 (https://twitter.com/zax2000)
eMail: mike.shaw@migrationmedia.net (mailto:mike.shaw@migrationmedia.net)
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6 Feb 2020
#057: Emergency Pod with Coronavirus Expats
We're interrupting our inter-season interregnum to bring you a discussion with a group of expats who live in China but who have found themselves "stuck" in Bali after the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan shut down virtually all businesses and most travel into the country. It's estimated that there are close to 1 million foreigners living in China, and while those who have been evacuated from, or who are still in, Wuhan and the surrounding area rightly get lots of attention, there are hundreds of thousands more folks who are either stuck somewhere, or grappling with the decision to leave or return. We've gathered 3 of these expats to talk about what it feels like to be "between homes," neither able to be where they live, nor in their place of origin, in a time of crisis. How are they dealing with their isolation? Do they feel guilty about not being in their host cities? Are they glad to have escaped? There are lots of complex emotions to deal with and we're diving right in.
Learn more about Asher's groundbreaking business, Go Vegan, by visiting their website here (https://govegan.cn/), or by jumping over to their Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/go_vegan101).
Shawn is chronicling her time in Bali on Instagram. You can follow her here (https://www.instagram.com/shawniesixteen).
You can see Chris' videos, where he's vlogging about his experiences as an expat both inside of and outside of China during the coronavirus outbreak, on his YouTube page here (https://www.youtube.com/user/Fromageization).
We'll be back in a few weeks with Season 4, so stay tuned! Get in touch with comments, suggestions or interview recommendations:
Twitter: @zax2000 (https://twitter.com/zax2000)
eMail: mike.shaw@migrationmedia.net (mailto:mike.shaw@migrationmedia.net)
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